This Monday, farmers are mobilizing to denounce the suspension of the Ecophyto plan, and foreign competition. In Lyon, they will meet on Place Bellecour and exhibit a thousand dead or empty hives.
Beekeepers also denounce unfair foreign competition from Ukraine, China, which export a lot of honey at less than 2 euros per kilo to France. “There must be a real desire on the part of the government to help farmers in this ecological transition” says beekeeper Pierrick Marnat.